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The Treading Behemoth

by Shagohod

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1.
Wrap your rosary about the handle of the blade While you piss your soul away For honor and for pride, and all those little lies You whisper to yourself while you lie awake Hidden in your voice is something never really there I have sensed your deception far too late The burdens of your virtue, they are breaking on my back But it claws my soul up from the grave
2.
Blood, rush to your heart Away from your head, right from the start Crawl, into my web Into the dark, hold your breath Drones cover your skin Fill in your throat, venomous sting Tinge, inside your spine Bring it to me, you will be mine I've come to shatter your will I've come to bury your cause I am the hand that is bathed in the blood of the righteous man There is no escape Hell knows no end No sorrow or fear, only the pain Throats that cut like butter, skin that breaks like glass You are making me blush I've come to shatter your will I've come to bury your cause I am the hand that is bathed in the blood of the righteous man There is no escape
3.
I am a man at the end of a gun and I’m Building the bullets, what have I become Give me a chance to explain what I've done here and You'll understand, there's nowhere we can run But there's just one plan that no one is saying Erase my brain, don't hesitate Do not be kind But this is my price, my penance paid And Zero’s hands are clean today Do not be kind This is the end of the line for the world we know Nuclear sunset, this what we have bought Dealers of death hold all of the cards for now Just look at what my careless hands have wrought But there's still one plan that no one's saying Erase my brain, don't hesitate Do not be kind There’s just one failsafe left in place Destroy my mind don’t leave a trace Do not be kind Don’t tell them lies, don’t tell them the truth Just tell them something in between I wasn’t built to fall this far I never meant to dig this deep Don’t let them take me live again I’ll never make it in the walls Just tell my family not to wait There were my reason, after all But there's still one plan that no one's saying Erase my brain, don't hesitate Do not be kind This is my price, my penance paid And Zero's hands are clean today We don't have time Don’t tell them lies, don’t tell them the truth Just tell them something in between I wasn’t built to fall this far I never meant to dig this deep Don’t let them take me live again I’ll never make it in the walls Just tell my family not to wait There were my reason, after all
4.
Become become become become Sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick Do you believe in god Would you admit the truth It's time we find out who you really are Afraid Needles down a broken spine I am all that's left Stay calm stay calm stay calm stay calm Don't move don't move don't move don't move You think you'd stand your ground I'll let you see me close Soon all you'll think is of yourself Afraid When the selfless embrace selfishness I am all that's left Afraid See the truth in everything I am all that's left
5.
The Turncoat 05:35
The fighter, the lover, the liar Remind me which is my disguise I fight in uncomfortable attire And spend all my nights lying with and to the wrong guys Oh this life switching sides with only seconds to spare Well, see if I care The truth is, I don’t care at all But if that’s true, then why are you still alive? A heart is just muscle, ventricles, and valves And love is only metaphors and well intentioned lies It’s no surprise I’ve never fallen for anyone And I won’t start falling now Turncoats keep turning Just cogs in a bloody machine I can’t let you leave with your life My heart captured is now feared deceased Catch and release my affection and attention In an onslaught of incoming fire God damn your desire When the mission is the only thing that matters Most times when I smile for a target I’d rather be breaking his nose I’m deadly with a butterfly knife But I more often hide it while not wearing very much clothes No one can resist me, at least none of those left alive A plan gone awry I hate that you’re making this hard I’ve never been on a date that I hadn’t been assigned And my interest in small talk ranges from little to none Oh oh, you seem nice, maybe a little bit slow but not unkind You’re going in blind my love You're too quick to trust You boys should just stick to your guns Turncoats keep turning Just cogs in a bloody machine I can’t let you leave with your life My heart captured is now feared deceased Catch and release, for affection is affliction In an onslaught of incoming fire God damn your desire When the mission is the only thing that matters
6.
7.
The Ocelot 04:28
When you’re good, you’re good When you’re bad, you’re bad When you’re caught in between a rock and a dangerous place Only the strong survive On the inside You know the devil may care But I don’t care much for making him wait What makes a man into THE MAN? Who looks a cobra in the face? Six shots Five fingers Forsaken Three days Two targets One me. You’re fast, I give you that But you’re never gonna last Because the Ocelot will always get his prey You’re gonna swallow some teeth If you’re messing with me You better not blink if you’re thinking of making my day Only cowards dare to hide You’ve got courage just enough to die Six shots Five fingers Forsaken Three days Two targets One me. What makes a man into THE MAN? Who looks a cobra in the face? Six shots Five fingers Forsaken Three days Two targets One me. Six shots Six shots Six shots Six shots Six shots But there’s only one me.
8.
Sunlight bleeds through my eyelids as I sleep And pulls my soul awake Gravity bends my back as I search this barren world Maybe I have been looking in all the wrong places Race my pulse as the engines start to hum Counting backwards while I close my eyes I leave this world for the while, there's no escape velocity Strong enough to pull memories from my skull and now 1,000 feet a second I will leave behind the only thing I've known The fury of futility in knowing that the coming back has never been my strong suit But if gravity bends the time that will mend Am I staring into something that is real? Or is this just the light from a star that has died? Burn me clean Dear mission control, I am out on my own And I've compromised the only safe way home For the shuttle's been breached, I am out of your reach Burn me clean The fires of Hell will burn me clean
9.
The snap of a twig as my boot falls hard An admission of guilt My position begs for disclosure Is it possible for fighting to be fair As I turn to face you for the last time The steel embrace of sacrifice This pound of flesh seems so insignificant When the blood we've spilled still flows Flows so high I tried not to resent you Instead I present this broken heart I know you're not to blame But this sorrow keeps carrying me away Ever since the day I met you I could tell the outcome from the start A dead man tells no lies I love you and this is not goodbye Do you recall when we once were lovers and The crimes we wrought upon this world Foundation of pain and guilt Does remembering the feeling do you harm? Philosophers haven't seen what I've seen They don't know what I know Precognitive dissonance Transitions bathed in silence and sorrow To the other side No I tried not to resent you Instead I present this broken heart I know you're not to blame But this sorrow keeps carrying me away Ever since the day I met you I could tell the outcome from the start A dead man tells no lies I love you and this is not goodbye S-O-R Sorry that I couldn't find a way To avoid this fate Your gun against my head Our child alone R-O-W You know of the price I need to pay Take this tear of red My solemn recompense and go back home The spirit of the warrior will always be with you
10.
Let’s start with what we know. We know this mission has gone to shit And we’re still fighting for control! Tuck tail, engine runnin’ Better gun it and go You know we’ve come too far To leave this place with empty hands Don’t hesitate Calling all combat personnel Die for something bigger than yourself Forfeit all thoughts of God For the Shagohod Five fuckers down, one left to go! I’m gonna give my life Tell me what for, oh! Switch left, switch right, pull the trigger and blow This bridge right straight to hell Destroy the Shagohod Rockets fly but don’t affect These metal gears still spinning faster They swiftly navigate disaster I don’t mean no harm nor disrespect But if you ease the gas, we’re gonna go down hard Calling all combat personnel Die for something bigger than yourself Forfeit all thoughts of God For the Shagohod Five fuckers down, one left to go! I’m gonna give my life Tell me what for, oh! Switch left, switch right, pull the trigger and blow This bridge right straight to hell Destroy the Shagohod Five fuckers down, one left to go! I’m gonna give my life Tell me what for, oh! Switch left, switch right, pull the trigger and blow What’s left of him straight to hell Destroy the Shagohod
11.
I've been walking like a soldier by the shine on my boots Kicking the pricks in the crossfire I've seen the things only blind hands could wrought Caught in the static and the mire But something inside me lit like a charge And I stared into death's grinning face I thrust my hand into flesh-eating flame The rest just fell in place I've been screaming like a child in unending night But I can't hear myself o'er the din Been praying for the angels in this no fly zone Still hear their skeletal wings A life for a life, a father for son Always seemed to me an even trade I put myself on the other side of minus The rest just fell in place Just give me this one last chance to explain I never wanted this any other way Hooded like hangmen, the gallows are slick with Blood from a traitor's son And you ain't the only one Is it all you can do just to squeeze your eyes shut As I stand here right in front of you You can cover your ears for forever if you wanted But it don’t mean a thing, what we do Because it's all I can do just to keep from my dreams The sorrow I cannot replace The things that we leave to chance and to fate The rest just fall in place Just give me this one last chance to explain I never wanted this any other way Hooded like hangmen, the gallows are slick with Blood from a traitor's son And you ain't the only one Meet me where the poppies fall like snow Sky is falling down upon our heads Serpentine you slip away from me Pull the trigger put me in my place
12.
Naked 07:19
Take your hands off of me Only thing I need, swallowed in the sea She never made it home Soldier’s only road leaves the joy alone I finally understand She’s gambled all and lost, according to the plan But she never knew the things I hid behind my teeth Maybe it was for the best But oh, it feels like we’ve been living in the heart of a star Lost by the light of day And oh, without you it feels like I’m just a dead man walking The dead man walks away Keep your pity to yourself Never needed it before, has anything changed now? Will she still visit me in sleep? Steal my holding breath, sanity to keep I finally understand You’ve gambled all and won, according to the plan But all, all I know is war Battle comes undone, I pray that it has just begun But oh, it feels like we’ve been living in the heart of a star Crushed by the light of day And oh, without you it feels like I’m a dead man walking The dead will have their day How could you just walk away from me? Turn your tail and lay me down to sleep How could you just walk away from me?

about

It started as a joke in 2013. High school buds and frequent musical collaborators Drew and Dave thought it’d be neat to drink 40s and play PS2 for 12 hours straight.

They did that. Then, they formed Shagohod.

It started as a single song sent over webcam, then morphed into a couple of skeleton-tracks banged out in freeware guitar tablature. One thing led to another, and they somehow wrote and recorded a full length album. Finally in 2017 they released The Treading Behemoth.

Since then, they’ve picked up some bandmates with actual talent (Ben and Ryan), played a ton of shows (from 'basements' to 'bars that look an awful lot like basements'), and regretted nothing.

Idk. Chat ‘em up. They’ll probably want to talk about gear or do a split EP with you.

credits

released June 14, 2017

Shagohod is:
Drew Bligh - Lead and rhythm guitars, lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, mandolin, cuatro, harmonium, percussion and synth
Dave Coffey - Drums and percussion, lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, rhythm guitar, piano, harmonium, organ, electric piano, cuatro and glockenspiel

Guest musicians:
Rick King - guitar solo, Track 7
Adam Matlock - clarinet solo, Track 4
Santina King - backing vocals, Tracks 7 and 12; spoken word, Track 10
Evan Berwald, Brittnie Carrier, Brenna Harvey, Travis Moore, Mallory Wray - backing vocals, Track 7

Produced by Shagohod and Garrett Sawyer

Engineered and mixed by Garrett Sawyer
at Northfire Recording Studio in Amherst, MA
www.northfirerecording.com

Mastered by Nick Zampiello
at New Alliance East in Cambridge, MA
newallianceeast.com

Album artwork by Julianne Eleanor
instagram.com/julianneeleanor

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